Dan Di Rocco: Dave Bolton, long-time production and layout manager for The Interim newspaper, died July 27, stricken by cancer. He was 72. For two decades, from 2000 to 2020, Dave contributed to the monthly publishing of our paper, laying out the articles, ads, and other components of the publication. Often it was a pressure cooker of a job, weeks of slow [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey In 2023, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) planned to display abortion victim photography during our press conference on Parliament Hill on May 10, the day prior to the National March for Life, but the Parliamentary Protective Service (PPS) stopped us from doing so. They originally cited an older version of General Rules for [...]
Donald DeMarco: My iPad, that incomprehensible marvel of technology, conveyed a letter from a politician who wanted my vote. He was polite, as was proper, and promised to do many good things if elected, as was expected. He closed his missive, fully confident that I would fully agree with him. “And I will always defend,” he said, “a woman’s right to abortion.” [...]
Tanis Cortens: A simple comic strip posted on X (formerly Twitter) by pro-life English doctor Calum Miller reveals an often-neglected truth: many fathers mourn their aborted children. The four-panel image, posted on May 18, depicts a boy playing on a swing and building a block tower with his father. Then the child fades, leaving his father distraught. In the final panel, the [...]
Paul Tuns: Just 11 days after Charlie Kirk was killed, his widow Erika Kirk addressed the nationally broadcast memorial service with words of grace: “My husband, Charlie, he wanted to save young men just like the one who took his life … On the cross, our Savior said: ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.’ That young man—that young [...]
Tanis Cortens: A July study published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research found that women who abort their children are more at risk for mental health issues than those who choose life. Researchers assessed 28,721 women who aborted and 1,228,807 who gave birth in Quebec hospitals between 2006 and 2022. According to the study, mental health-related hospitalization was more common after abortion [...]
Paul Tuns: In July, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute published a paper by Christine Van Geyn, a lawyer and litigation director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, titled “Anti-free speech ‘bubble laws’ are unconstitutional – and expanding. We need to stop them.” Van Geyn wrote that “From one province in 1995 to thousands of locations across multiple cities by 2025, ‘bubble zone’ laws have significantly [...]
To mark the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, Paul Tuns, editor of The Interim, sat down with Campaign Life Coalition vice president Matthew Wojciechowski to discuss life and family issues at the UN. CLC has had Special Consultative Status as a non-government organization at the UN since 1999 and Wojcieschowski has been to UN events more than [...]
Paul Tuns: After the League of Nations disintegrated in the wake of World War II, U.S. President Frank Delano Roosevelt proposed the idea of the Four Powers (the U.S., U.K., Russia, and Red China) as an international body to coordinate cooperation among them. Throughout the war the idea morphed into what became the April 1945 San Francisco United Nations Conference on International [...]
1945 was a moment of great hope, and great peril. A mere quarter century after the close of what had then been known as the “War to End all Wars,” Europe had, for the second time, been the epicenter of an even more destructive military conflict. In the wake of the Great War, the League of Nations had been founded precisely to [...]
Paul Tuns: Editor’s Note: There are descriptions of graphic sex acts in this story. The Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM) published a report that reveals the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has developed resources and funded activities that promote obscene sex-ed programs, homosexuality, and transgenderism to children. In “UNICEF Programs Sexually Groom Children: Evidence of UNICEF Promoting Comprehensive Sexuality Education, [...]
Oswald Clark: In August and September, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., tackled four pro-life and pro-family issues: fetal tissue research, organ transplantation, the abortion pill mifepristone, and gender ideology. In September, it was announced that HHS rejected the renewal of 17 grants for fetal tissue research. In his first administration, Trump had [...]
Paul Tuns: On Sept. 10, Charlie Kirk was killed during a speaking engagement at Utah Valley University by a gunman opposed to Kirk’s political views. Charlie Kirk co-founded Turning Point USA in 2012 to advocate for conservative positions on high school and university campuses. TPUSA hosts annual conventions such as the Student Action Summit and Young Women’s Leadership Summit, and organized Kirk’s [...]
Special editorial: For Charlie Kirk, the event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10 began like so many others. In front of a crowd of about 3000, the Turning Point USA founder and president engaged in spirited debate, fielding questions from all quarters, taking on all comers. Kirk’s responses were typical: Drawing on conservative values and, even more, on his sincere and [...]